The Land of Gold Reality Versus Fiction
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We shall here find a great^ many Mexican miners, who make deep pits and excavations in the hills, and who are generally very successful in their operations.
These delving countrymen of Santa Anna seem to have a peculiar tact for discovering the veins of gold. But they do not confine themselves much to surface diggings. They have a greater 1-80 STOCKTON AND SONOKA.
propensity for holes. Sometimes they will go forty or fifty feet into the earth without finding an atom of the precious metal ; but ...it is very seldom that they mistake their ground ; they keep going, either in a perpendicular, horizontal ori meandering direction, until they strike the ore. Except in working quartz veins, machinery has heen hut little employed, as yet, in develop- ing the mineral resources of the State ; but I am inclined to the opinion that it might be advan- tageously applied in gathering the' gold in what- ever form it may exist.
A part of the preceding chapter was devoted to observations upon the habits of life and per- sonal appearance of the miner ; but I neglected to mention his peculiar characteristic or append- age : this is the long hair upon his head and face.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
We shall here find a great^ many Mexican miners, who make deep pits and excavations in the hills, and who are generally very successful in their operations.
These delving countrymen of Santa Anna seem to have a peculiar tact for discovering the veins of gold. But they do not confine themselves much to surface diggings. They have a greater 1-80 STOCKTON AND SONOKA.
propensity for holes. Sometimes they will go forty or fifty feet into the earth without finding an atom of the precious metal ; but ...it is very seldom that they mistake their ground ; they keep going, either in a perpendicular, horizontal ori meandering direction, until they strike the ore. Except in working quartz veins, machinery has heen hut little employed, as yet, in develop- ing the mineral resources of the State ; but I am inclined to the opinion that it might be advan- tageously applied in gathering the' gold in what- ever form it may exist.
A part of the preceding chapter was devoted to observations upon the habits of life and per- sonal appearance of the miner ; but I neglected to mention his peculiar characteristic or append- age : this is the long hair upon his head and face.
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